SCHOOL LEADERS SPEECHES Any Grade 6 student is most welcome to nominate for the position of School Captain or Junior School Council President. We need 2 school captains. We will also be choosing 2 Vice Captains. We will choose a JSC President and a Vice President.
Grade 5s and 6s can nominate for the positions of House Captains and Vice Captains. Some skills you need are to: Communicate well with others: be an effective speaker, be able to work with all kinds of people, be tactful and be a good listener.
Be responsible and respectful: Follow the school rules and show other students the way to behave at home, in the school and when on excursions.
Be Caring: Be sensitive to others, accept others for who they are, be compassionate, have a good sense of humor.
Be Creative: Express ideas, come up with helpful suggestions, try to brainstorm for new ideas.
Be Dependable: Be reliable, others can trust you, make good on your promises. Keep on task.
Show Cooperation: work well with others (even those you may not like).
Four Things for a Student Leader to do in the First Two Weeks of School
by Ronan McGinniss | posted in: Helpful Articles | 0
By Ronan McGinniss
For student leaders the first two weeks of school should involve more than just recharging your bus pass and making sure your pencil case is fully stocked.
If you have recently been chosen as a student leader then you have probably been told that there will be extra responsibility placed on you throughout the year. The breaking news… the year has started and the clock is already ticking!
Don’t get caught thinking ” I don’t know where to start” or the other popular response “It’s a long year, so I’ll sort myself out first and move on to leading others later.”
To help you get started we would like to lay it out nice and simply by suggesting four things for student leaders to do during the first two weeks of school:
#1- Spend time with every new student
To do this you could go ‘all out’ and organise for the leadership team to provide a special morning tea just to meet the new students all at once. Even if you do decide to get all new students together at once, make sure that you go out of your way to spend a few minutes with each of them at another time during the first two weeks. You can be sure that by spending this time it will make a huge difference to new students.
#2- Have a student leaders meeting
The first two weeks are often busy with all kinds of important things. To remind yourself and your team that your leadership role is also important make sure you hold a meeting with everyone present. If you don’t know what to discuss at this meeting take this article with you an read through each point together and have a group discussion about each point.
#3- Set a clear goal for term one
Clear goals might involve projects you want to undertake, events to run, campaigns to launch, changes to make, or a culture or value that you wish to implement. It’s perfectly fine to have have a full-year goal, but it will help you get off to a great start if you have a goal that you wish to achieve by the end of term one. This short-term goal will help you becoming active as a leader straight away and will give you useful momentum to help progress toward other goals later in the year.
#4- Listen to your fellow students
Before getting carried away working toward goals and making changes that you have thought of yourself, takes some time to listen to other students. As a leader it is your job to serve the needs of others, so it is important that you find a way to hear what they have to say. Maybe you can survey your peers, or have an open meeting for them to come and put forward their thoughts or ideas for the student leaders to consider? The key is to do this in the first two weeks of school, to remind yourself and your peers that your year will be focused on serving them.
If you have a comment yourself about the first two weeks of school, feel free to write them in the comment space below!!…
Any Grade 6 student is most welcome to nominate for the position of School Captain or Junior School Council President.
We need 2 school captains. We will also be choosing 2 Vice Captains.
We will choose a JSC President and a Vice President.
Grade 5s and 6s can nominate for the positions of House Captains and Vice Captains.
Some skills you need are to:
Communicate well with others: be an effective speaker, be able to work with all kinds of people, be tactful and be a good listener.
Be responsible and respectful: Follow the school rules and show other students the way to behave at home, in the school and when on excursions.
Be Caring: Be sensitive to others, accept others for who they are, be compassionate, have a good sense of humor.
Be Creative: Express ideas, come up with helpful suggestions, try to brainstorm for new ideas.
Be Dependable: Be reliable, others can trust you, make good on your promises. Keep on task.
Show Cooperation: work well with others (even those you may not like).
Four Things for a Student Leader to do in the First Two Weeks of School
by Ronan McGinniss | posted in: Helpful Articles | 0By Ronan McGinniss
For student leaders the first two weeks of school should involve more than just recharging your bus pass and making sure your pencil case is fully stocked.
If you have recently been chosen as a student leader then you have probably been told that there will be extra responsibility placed on you throughout the year. The breaking news… the year has started and the clock is already ticking!
Don’t get caught thinking ” I don’t know where to start” or the other popular response “It’s a long year, so I’ll sort myself out first and move on to leading others later.”
To help you get started we would like to lay it out nice and simply by suggesting four things for student leaders to do during the first two weeks of school:
#1- Spend time with every new student
To do this you could go ‘all out’ and organise for the leadership team to provide a special morning tea just to meet the new students all at once. Even if you do decide to get all new students together at once, make sure that you go out of your way to spend a few minutes with each of them at another time during the first two weeks. You can be sure that by spending this time it will make a huge difference to new students.
#2- Have a student leaders meeting
The first two weeks are often busy with all kinds of important things. To remind yourself and your team that your leadership role is also important make sure you hold a meeting with everyone present. If you don’t know what to discuss at this meeting take this article with you an read through each point together and have a group discussion about each point.
#3- Set a clear goal for term one
Clear goals might involve projects you want to undertake, events to run, campaigns to launch, changes to make, or a culture or value that you wish to implement. It’s perfectly fine to have have a full-year goal, but it will help you get off to a great start if you have a goal that you wish to achieve by the end of term one. This short-term goal will help you becoming active as a leader straight away and will give you useful momentum to help progress toward other goals later in the year.
#4- Listen to your fellow students
Before getting carried away working toward goals and making changes that you have thought of yourself, takes some time to listen to other students. As a leader it is your job to serve the needs of others, so it is important that you find a way to hear what they have to say. Maybe you can survey your peers, or have an open meeting for them to come and put forward their thoughts or ideas for the student leaders to consider? The key is to do this in the first two weeks of school, to remind yourself and your peers that your year will be focused on serving them.
If you have a comment yourself about the first two weeks of school, feel free to write them in the comment space below!!…